scoop.it Archives - 27 January 2013, Sunday

"Freicoin is a decentralized, distributed electronic currency designed to address the grievances of the 99% movement and correct the excesses of the 1%. Whereas inflationary currency like the U.S. Dollar or Euro are controlled by central bankers under rules that benefit the establishm...

A vibrant private sector-with firms making investments, creating jobs, and improving productivity—promotes growth and expands opportunities for poor (RT @WorldBank: 232 million women live in economies where they can't get a job without their...

Looking out across this skyscraper prairie, plants in hues of mostly purple and yellow are in bloom, butterflies are fluttering around and grasshoppers are everywhere. It feels weird, but as we move across the roof we follow Reller's instructions to step gingerly on the plants rather ...

“My argument is that the views of knowledge developed in practice, if not in theory, by the democratic social movements of the late 1960s onwards have an unrealised relevance today. They provide some otherwise neglected tools to provide an alternative to the social-engineering state o...

"In Berlin, a variety of old and rare crops are being grown on a renovated site in Kreuzberg. The 6,000-square-meter farm Prinzessinnengärten consumes the Moritzplatz space, which was once a vibrant shopping area and motorway junction. The once-damaged space is now an “agricultura urb...

In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss whether it's time to start loving bankers as former Mayor Ken Livingstone suggests and they also wonder if the flying naked short selling witch caught by religious police in Saudi Arabia is, in fact, Blythe Masters covering an oil ...

Microsoft has recently announced the preview release of Microsoft Driver for Node.JS for SQL Server which allows the Node.js developers to connect Microsoft SQL Server database and Windows Azure SQL database. This is a great addition to the tool set for Node.js developers. NoSQL datab...

Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative: A year of mentoring #Art From www.rolexmentorprotege.com - Today, 10:16 PM Nicholas Hlobo considers that his experience as a protégé with mentor Anish Kapoor has given him a fresh outlook on his life as an artist.

Food security through GO-NGO partnershipDaily Star OnlineSince the possibility of horizontal expansion (of cropped area) has already been exhausted, enhancement in productivity should come through vertical augmentation of the productivity by...

Questions of decent work and employment have been central to the social antagonisms and political convulsions of postapartheid South Africa. In the wake of the 2007 Polokwane conference, leadership changes and policy shifts in the ANC have focused on the failures of Thabo Mbeki’s agen...

I remember how happy I was when I first took a boat ride going to the city and went to college. I told myself “Yes, at last, I’ll say goodbye to this place”. I have had enough of the beach, of the lake, falls, rivers, people, etc…But you’ll never guess how I trully regret leaving this...

Gross National Happiness #GNHin Butan measures: compassion,social sustainable development, fairness of distribution, environmental conservation. They want to be 100% organic & biodynamic. They pledge to be carbon neutral. They also measure material and inmaterial dimension of educatio...

Since the founding of La Via Campesina and the launching of the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform we have had many significant achievements, and at the same time the world has undergone major changes. Among them we can highlight the transnationalization of finance capital and the co...